Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Women are the true modelers of social order.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Mountains are nature’s testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature’s stern agony writes itself on these furrowed brows of gloomy stone. These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.